Westlife Tracks Been Used In CIA Torture?

14 October 2015

Westlife Tracks Been Used In CIA Torture?

According to Vice, the CIA have been torturing people with the music from our homeland boys, Westlife. In a federal lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union, three plaintiffs are arguing that the CIA interrogation program, led by psychologists James Mitchell and John "Bruce" Jesse, subjected them to torture. An 82-page complaint, written on behalf of two former prisoners and a family member of another who died in custody, details the methods used by the US government to extract information from suspected terrorists after 9/11.

It is reported that a ‘bounty system’ was used in which African warlords would sell "terror suspects" to the CIA for cash. One person suspected was Suleiman Abdullah fisherman in Tanzania. In March 2003, he was captured, allegedly with the help of a warlord named "Mr. Tall." Abdullah was at first taken to Kenya, and then ferried around to various locations in Afghanistan, including a prison called COBAL.

Here, according to the ACLU, Abdullah was assaulted with music from Westlife. Their hits were alternated with heavy metal, to heighten the difference in tone. He was also kept in a pitch-black cell that smelled like rotting seaweed. The lawsuit is ongoing but now we can all say that listening to Westlife really is torture.